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As part of a program monitoring environmental changes on Earth, NASA will be launching one of the most powerful Earth-observing satellite every built into space this afternoon, Discovery News reports.
The Mars Curiosity rover has drilled into the bedrock of the Red Planet and has made history as the first robot to penetrate beyond the planet's surface, according to a NASA announcement.
Later this month, NASA will host its first ever Google+ Hangout with the crew of the International Space Station (ISS). According to PC Mag, U.S. astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn, along with the Canadian Space Agency's Chris Hadfield, will join the group video to chat about their life aboard the space station on February 22 at 11 a.m. EST.
As the accoutrements for research grow in scope and scale, scientists are realizing that an Earth-like planet may not be so rare as once thought. A new study out of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) states that the closest one may be a mere 13 light-years away.
An asteroid, approximately 150-feet in diameter, according to NASA, is expected to make a flyby so close to our planet Earth that the asteroid will actually be between some of our satellites and planet. Despite the apparent hysteria that follows such a cosmic phenomenon, NASA has explicitly stated that there is no chance of a collision with our planet.
NASA is inviting 150 of its social media followers on Facebook, Twiter and Google+ to chat live with astronauts on the International Space Station.
As Super Bowl Sunday kicks, millions of households across the country will be hosting their own football-themed Super Bowl parties, complete with abundant booze and yelling at the television. One Super Bowl party, however, might be the most interesting one of all, and it won't even be located on this planet. That's right folks, the astronauts up at International Space Station (ISS) are going to have the Super Bowl beamed up to them for their viewing pleasure.
Solar flare eruptions, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), have provided scenic images for NASA but a moment back in July brought the organization to inspect it further.
New research has revealed that ridges on the surface of Mars may be the fossilized remains of a web of water.
Astronautas de la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) captaron un video en el que se observa el amanecer y el anochecer vistos desde el espacio, espectáculo que fue compartido por la Agencia Especializada Estadounidense, NASA.
Arguably the world's most mysterious and recognizable face, the Mona Lisa can now add another achievement to its list - it's the first image to be digitally transmitted to a spacecraft in lunar orbit using a laser.
The International Space Station is due for renovation, and NASA believes that the private company Bigelow Aerospace is up for the job.
The space agency released the last video from the GRAIL spacecraft, which crash landed on the moon in December.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is now headed towards a region of Gale crater known as Yellowknife Bay, allegedly the home of calcium sulfate which may have been scarred by water flow in the past
NASA announced that it has awarded a $17.8 million contract to aerospace contractor Bigelow Aerospace for an inflatable space habitat extension that will complement the International Space Station.
